family gnetaceae

Noun
  1. Plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum (synset 111617577)
    is a type of: gymnosperm family - a family of gymnosperms
    member holonym: genus gnetum - type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones
    belongs to: gnetales, order gnetales - chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
    same as: gnetaceae

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